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Lazy Evaluation

Lazy Evaluation is a computational strategy within functional programming that defers the evaluation of an expression until its value is explicitly required, distinguishing it from eager evaluation by minimizing unnecessary computations through on-demand, memoized execution.

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485

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208

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2017–2026

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Publications

259

Why Functional Programming Matters

John Hughes · The Computer Journal · 1989 · 739 citations · Full text

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Monad transformers and modular interpreters

Sheng Liang, Paul Hudak, Mark P. Jones · 1995 · 504 citations · Full text

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Adaptive Submodularity: Theory and Applications in Active Learning and Stochastic Optimization

Daniel Golovin, Andreas Krause · CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) · 2011 · 429 citations

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A natural semantics for lazy evaluation

John Launchbury · 1993 · 377 citations

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The concept of a supercompiler

Valentin F. Turchin · ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems · 1986 · 367 citations · Full text

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Authors

485

  1. SP
    Simon Peyton Jones

    Microsoft Research (United Kingdom), United Kingdom

    7 publications · 342 citations

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  2. GV
    Germán Vidal

    Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

    5 publications · 197 citations

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  3. SS
    Siddhartha S Srinivasa

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    5 publications · 136 citations

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  4. SM
    Simon Marlow

    Microsoft Research (United Kingdom), United Kingdom

    5 publications · 185 citations

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  5. PW
    Philip Wadler

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    5 publications · 565 citations

    5

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Institutions

208

  1. Microsoft Research (United Kingdom)

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    11 h-index

    18 publications

    1.2K citations

  2. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    11 h-index

    20 publications

    491 citations

  3. Chalmers University of Technology

    Gothenburg, Sweden

    10 h-index

    13 publications

    830 citations

  4. Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique

    Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, France

    8 h-index

    17 publications

    853 citations

  5. Microsoft (United States)

    Redmond, United States

    7 h-index

    9 publications

    707 citations

  6. University of Glasgow

    Glasgow, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    8 publications

    1.3K citations

  7. Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, Spain

    5 h-index

    12 publications

    267 citations

  8. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    5 h-index

    13 publications

    1.9K citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Functional Programming

    14 publications · 844 citations

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  2. ACM SIGPLAN Notices

    7 publications · 206 citations

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  3. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science

    ENTCS · 7 publications · 205 citations

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  5. arXiv (Cornell University)

    Repository · 5 publications · 344 citations

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